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LibreOffice isn't just an app – it's a worldwide community of people who work on code, documentation, QA, design, marketing and more. Meet us at local events, like recently in northern Italy: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. This release introduces NVDA Remote Access, provides speech, braille, OCR & Office improvements, Native selection in Chrome & edge

Full info & Download: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #FOSS #NewVersion #Update #News #Free


🗓️ Planify mi bylo doporučeno v komunitní místnosti o #triliumnext – a musím říct, fakt super!
Konečně krásná co padne do #Gnome, jednoduchá a funkční aplikace pro správu úkolů, která se napojí na #Nextcloud #oscloud přes CalDAV.

Nextcloud (backend) + DAVx⁵ + Tasks.org (Android) + Planify (desktop)
Funguje to skvěle dohromady.

#FOSS #Planify #Nextcloud #CalDAV #Linux #OpenSource #oscloud
github.com/alainm23/planify


Our next major #LibreOffice release is coming up in August! Help us to test the new features and iron-out any wrinkles before the release: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource







Tired of software tracking you, and using your content to feed AI services? Switch to free and open source software – like #LibreOffice, which is backed by a non-profit (@tdforg) and has zero interest in your data: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #privacy



🛡️ "The evolution of Linux targeted cyber threats"
with Pau Hoz at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 11:05 CEST 📍 Brescia

🔍 From supply chain attacks to evasive malware, Pau digs into how Linux threats are evolving—and what it means for FOSS security.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#Linux #Security #FOSS #CyberThreats


Ooo this is cool:

*** New command 'help-find-source'.
Switch to a buffer visiting the source of what is being described in
"*Help*". It is bound to 'C-h 4 s' globally.

#Emacs #gnu #foss #linux


Want to start a Repair Café in your area?

You can!

Repair Café International enables local groups around the world to start their own:

repaircafe.org/en/join/start-y…

@RepairCafeInternational supports #EndOf10 to prevent #eWaste!

#RCInternational #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows #Win10



It has been an incredible two years since NV Access founders Mick Curran & Jamie Teh featured on Australian Story: abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

The impact NVDA has for blind people around the world has only grown & the need is as great now as ever!

You can watch the Audio Description enabled version of Australian Story: youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI

Regular version: youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blind #Accessibility #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Impact #Australia #AustralianStory


NV Access are pleased to advise that Beta (and alpha) versions of NVDA are once again available. To celebrate, we've released Beta 10 of NVDA 2025.1: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

Beta 10 includes:
* Updates to translations
* Correct context help navigation for Remote Access dialogs

Thank you everyone for your patience and support, and as always with pre-release builds, please do file any issues on GitHub: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #PreRelease #FOSS #Beta


Hi @kasnder,
As part of the targeted user group I'd like to experiment a bit with #GreaseMilkyway :mastoinnocent:

Fortunately I'm not addicted to one the apps listed in the examples.
On the project page you mention Developer Assistant from the PlayStore as one potential tool to identify the elements one wants to block. Do you happen to know a comparable #FOSS tool from an #FDroid #Repo I could use instead?
@IzzyOnDroid


Time to grab your free sticker pack! The Month of #LibreOffice, May 2025 is over – and we're announcing the winners. (If you helped to promote the software here with the hashtag, you should be on the list.) Find out more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


🌏 "How a GNOME Community is Shaping the Open Source Future of a Nation"
with Aaditya Singh at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 10:25 CEST 📍 Brescia

GNOME Nepal grew from a small group to a national FOSS leader. Learn how they did it.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…
#FOSS #Nepal



Heute 👇

#Digitalcourage, OG #München:
F-Droid und datenschutzfreundliche Apps

» In diesem Workshop zeigen wir Möglichkeiten, die Datensammlung auf #Android-#Smartphone|s einzuschränken. Neben allgemeinen Tipps (Abschalten der #Google Werbe-ID, Verwendung einer alternativen #Suchmaschine, Werbung über DNS- und/oder Firewall-Einstellungen reduzieren, …) wollen wir vor allem den #App-Store #FDroid vorstellen und uns über die dortigen Apps austauschen.

Montag, 26.05.2025
19:00 bis 21:00 Uhr
Jugendinformationszentrum (#JIZ)
Sendlinger Str. 7 (Innenhof)
80331 München

digitalcourage.de/treffen-vor-…

Anmeldung erwünscht: ortsgruppe@muenchen.digitalcourage.de

Gerät mitbringen!

F-Droid möglichst vorinstallieren (digitalcourage.de/digitale-sel…)

#datenschutz #digitaleselbstverteidigung #opensource #foss


Lots happened in the #LibreOffice project in May! We had updates to the software, event reports, news about the upcoming conference and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


We ❤️ #opensource & we ❤️ being #GoogleFree

Break free from Big Tech tracking and go secure with Tuta! 💪 🔒

🔗 tuta.com/blog/open-source-emai…

#Foss #FDroid #Android #Email #Calendar #TutaMail


I just learned that #Codeberg only receives 350€ per week in donations at the moment. If you like #FOSS and/or you use Codeberg.org, consider donating. Its not GitHub backed by Microsoft, its a non-profit dedicated to providing great service for developers.


Shiny new features and UI improvements came to #LibreOffice last year, thanks to our Design community – such as styles for comments. Learn more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware


I’ve published Part 3 of “I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.”

This one’s about the so-called universal interface: the console. The raw, non-GUI, text-mode TTY. The place where sighted Linux users fall back when the desktop breaks, and where blind users are supposed to do the same. Except — we can’t. Not reliably. Not safely. Not without building the entire stack ourselves.

This post covers Speakup, BRLTTY, Fenrir, and the audio subsystem hell that makes screen reading in the console a game of chance. It dives into why session-locked audio breaks espeakup, why BRLTTY fails silently and eats USB ports, why the console can be a full environment — and why it’s still unusable out of the box. And yes, it calls out the fact that if you’re deafblind, and BRLTTY doesn’t start, you’re just locked out of the machine entirely. No speech. No visuals. Just a dead black box.

There are workarounds. Scripts. Hacks. Weird client.conf magic that you run once as root, once as a user, and pray to PipeWire that it sticks. Some of this I learned from a reader of post 1. None of it is documented. None of it is standard. And none of it should be required.

This is a long one. Technical, and very real. Because the console should be the one place Linux accessibility never breaks. And it’s the one place that’s been left to rot.

Link to the post: fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…

#Linux #Accessibility #BlindTech #BRLTTY #Speakup #Fenrir #TTY #PipeWire #ScreenReader #DisabilityTech #ConsoleComputing #LinuxAccessibility #FOSS


How does the Open Document Format (ODF) – as used in LibreOffice and other apps – compare to Microsoft's .docx, .xlsx and .pptx formats? Find out here: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #standards


Just published a blog post tearing into hCaptcha’s so-called “accessibility” mode.

It’s not accessibility. It’s a cookie. And to get that cookie, you now have to submit your email and send a code via SMS to an U.S. phone number. It fails silently. It doesn’t confirm anything. You click “Confirm Code” and get “An error has occurred.” No cookie. No fallback. No support. And if you somehow get it? It’s a third-party cookie your browser probably blocks, and it expires. Then you get to do it all again.

Meanwhile, hCaptcha’s text-based challenge — the only mode that might actually work with a screen reader — isn’t tied to the cookie at all. It only shows up if the website owner specifically enables it. Most don’t. So even if you’re blind, even if you’re using assistive tech, you get the same unusable image grid as everyone else.

This isn’t accessibility. It’s exclusion wrapped in PR.

The blog post breaks it all down: how the cookie flow works (or doesn’t), why the system is broken by design, how developers got misled, and what real alternatives look like. If you care about accessible design or just want to understand how bad this gets, read it.

Link: fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hel…

#Accessibility #a11y #BlindTech #hCaptcha #HellCaptcha #UX #WebDev #ScreenReaders #Disability #TechRant #DevTools #Ableism #Privacy #FOSS #Inclusion


Do you have any references for choosing the distribution? My first point of search was distrowatch.com but did not see anything for accessibility there. But maybe I just did not try hard enough .. How did you come to choose Debian?

If it isn't there yet, it's possibly worth to collect information on a website, and having a check list for distributions - What is there? What is missing?

#Linux #FOSS #Accessibility #Blind #NeUserExperience #DigitalInclusion



I like #LibreOffice (and donated a small amount of money for its further development) because it's #FOSS ,works perfectly for me (even better than #Word , for instance) and above all it's free from any U.S. #GAFAM . However, I don't really need the stickers. 😉


You’ve seen my posts about Linux accessibility. You’ve read me scream about broken screen readers, unusable bootloaders, and the sheer volume of stuff that only works after three undocumented hacks and a blood sacrifice. That’s from someone who already knows how to deal with this mess.
But what happens when someone new tries to step in?
My partner just published the first post in a new blog series called “Linux: Helpful or Headache?” It’s a personal account of what it feels like to stare into the abyss of Linux as a blind user who hasn’t even installed it yet. This isn’t a “how to” guide. It’s not a technical tutorial. It’s a moment of honest vulnerability and curiosity in the face of a system that’s infamous for treating newcomers like an inconvenience.
Part One – An Introduction
reading4life.mataroa.blog/blog…
She’s totally blind. She’s used to Windows and iOS — platforms where accessibility is at least visible, documented, and supported. Linux? From the outside, it looks like a twisted obstacle course: too many distros, zero onboarding, no centralized help, and a community that can't agree on anything except that "you should have read the wiki."
And yet… she’s jumping in anyway.
This first post talks about that pre-installation limbo. The “what the hell even is a distro?” stage. The existential dread of picking between MATE and GNOME when you don’t even know how to pronounce “Flatpak.” The raw, unfiltered feeling of not knowing what you don’t know — and doing it anyway, because the itch to explore is stronger than the fear of breaking stuff.
There’s no cheerleading here. No “yay open source!” No tidy beginner tutorial with copy-paste terminal commands. Just one blind woman staring down the reality that Linux doesn’t come with a support number, and deciding to try it anyway — not because it’s easy, but because she wants to learn, grow, and maybe even call bullshit where it’s due.
And if you're wondering — no, I didn’t write or co-write it. This is her voice, her experience, her story. But it does tie in beautifully with the nightmare I’ve been chronicling in my own posts, from a totally different vantage point.
If you’ve ever tried to onboard someone to Linux, especially someone disabled, this is what it actually looks like. And if you’ve ever told someone “Linux is great, just pick a distro,” read this and realize how much we take for granted.
Go read it. Boost it. Follow the series. She's only just getting started.
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #DisabilityInTech #Blind #NewUserExperience #Debian #UX #TechBlog #DigitalInclusion



#LibreOffice #foss #OpenSource
I love #Libreoffice because it gives you the choice of which interface to use. Because you never have the feeling that someone is constantly looking over your shoulder. And because ODF documents are much more efficient than Microsoft files.
I have been using #Libreoffice for many years. I bought my first version in Munich, when it was still StarOffice version 5.2. That was quite a long time ago.


Another piece of cool, open source, user repairable #linux #hardware ordered because #accessibility focused guides on user-repairable hardware basically don't exist. I can't wait to evaluate it and make a post series about the experience. Maybe with some videos! I need a Patrion or something if I keep this up, but oh well. It's fun and people seem to enjoy what I have to say. #mnt #linuxHardware #a11y #openSource #foss #openHardware


Do you want these stickers? Of course you do! And you can get them by just posting here why you love #LibreOffice (with the hashtag), as part of our Month of LibreOffice campaign: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource



LibreOffice is available in 120 languages – which may be a record for such a large piece of software! And this is all thanks to our Native Language Communities, who translate the suite's interface and help content. Here's what they did last year: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware


🌟 Excited to share Thorsten-Voice's YouTube channel! 🎥 🗣️🔊 ♿ 💬

Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content! 🎬

follow hem here: @thorstenvoice
or on YouTube: youtube.com/@ThorstenMueller YouTube channel!

#Accessibility #FLOSS #TTS #ParlerTTS #OpenSource #VoiceTech #TextToSpeech #AI #CoquiAI #VoiceAssistant #Sprachassistent #MachineLearning #AccessibilityMatters #FLOSS #TTS #OpenSource #Inclusivity #FOSS #Coqui #AI #CoquiAI #VoiceAssistant #Sprachassistent #VoiceTechnology #KünstlicheStimme #MachineLearning #Python #Rhasspy #TextToSpeech #VoiceTech #STT #SpeechSynthesis #SpeechRecognition #Sprachsynthese #ArtificialVoice #VoiceCloning #Spracherkennung #CoquiTTS #voice #a11y #ScreenReader